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Harmony Technical Whitepaper

A sharded proof-of-stake design that combines a BFT-style consensus inside shards with a randomness scheme for assigning validators, aimed at keeping a single shard from being captured.

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Authors: Stephen Tse and the Harmony team
Date: 2019
Publisher: Stephen Tse and the Harmony team
Version: Source cited by the 2019 study. The study is the reading. This page does not add a second essay.
Document ID: BLC-STUDY-0015
DOI: None recorded
Last reviewed: 1 October 2026
Licence: No licence recorded. Rights status under review.

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A sharded proof-of-stake design that combines a BFT-style consensus inside shards with a randomness scheme for assigning validators, aimed at keeping a single shard from being captured.

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Official source — harmony.one white paper
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Author–date

Tse, S., & the Harmony team (2019). Harmony Technical Whitepaper. Stephen Tse and the Harmony team. https://harmony.one/whitepaper.pdf

BibTeX

@techreport{harmony2019,
  title = {Harmony Technical Whitepaper},
  author = {Stephen Tse and the Harmony team},
  year = {2019},
  institution = {Stephen Tse and the Harmony team},
  url = {https://harmony.one/whitepaper.pdf},
  note = {Rights status: Official external source only. Blockchain Lab record: https://blockchainlab.com/research/corpus/papers/harmony}
}

RIS

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CSL-JSON

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Source status: Official source
Use status: Metadata and commentary only. The reading is the study page.
Rights: Official external source only
Training and retrieval: Not permitted from this site. There is no rights-cleared full text to retrieve or to train on.

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